What is it about?
A description of the life and work of the Nobel Laureate, Sir John Cornforth
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Why is it important?
Sir John's contributions to so many aspects of Organic Chemistry are legion, As a profoundly deaf scientist he has risen to the heights of the profession and is an inspiration to the deaf. His unravelling of the biosynthesis of cholesterol and his contributions to stereochemistry re particularly important.
Perspectives
Sir Alan Battersby has written the section on Sir John's life and my own contribution deals with his scientific work.
Professor Douglas W Young
University of Sussex
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This page is a summary of: Sir John Warcup Cornforth AC CBE. 7 September 1917 — 8 December 2013, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, December 2015, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2015.0016.
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